WMD said
ltw1992 said
Daniel1988 said
Where are your essential fats!!!!!!!!!My big back of snack nuts, the olive oil I cook with and now the peanut butter!
Mike Stewart said
Avocado and olive oils into soups are also great choicesI'm sorry but seriously? Nuts as 'essential fats'? Your Omega-3 is looking like virtually nil. If you're pumping peanut butter in to get extra calories on top of presumably non-organic eggs, non-organic meats and throwing in extra nuts on top of that with no visible signs of any oily fish or other Omega-3 sources you will be heavily pro-inflammatory. Add this on top of inflammation from heavy training and high carb intake and this is most likely going to be limiting you quite significantly. Peanut butter you can keep but scrap the big bag of nuts, aim for at least one serving of oily fish a day and get some organic flaxseed oil (about 50% Omega-3 and not that expensive) and add about 2-3tsp with every meal. This will help place you in a better Omega-3:Omega-6 ratio thus decreasing inflammation, increasing glucose management along with an extensive host of other benefits.
On a side note make sure you cook your eggs, raw whole eggs only have about 50% of their protein that can be absorbed as the chemical present in the white (avidin) only diminishes when cooking which restricts the overall protein content as well as inhibiting the absorption of key vitamins in the yolk such as biotin which we are largely deficient in already.
WMD - it's interesting that you reccomend flax oil. I thought that plant-based omega 3 sources had poor bioavailability and if would be more beneficial to use a good grassed butter/cream on meals or supplement with straight up fish oil if one is looking to up n3 intake?
Also OP, if you want to have nuts as a snack - buy a coconut and cut the flesh into cubes. Two coconuts will run you about a quid and last a week. Dem der MCTs...